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The Substance-Use Prevention Workforce: An International Perspective

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Part of the book series: Advances in Prevention Science ((Adv. Prevention Science))

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This chapter focuses on European experiences and actions in psychoactive substance-use prevention through work undertaken on development of the European Union (EU)-funded European Drug Prevention Quality Standards (EDPQS). The aim is to briefly introduce relevant discussions concerning the composition of the professional prevention workforce, emerging challenges to practice because of advances in prevention science, and strategies to support professional development and orientation towards evidence-based approaches. Whilst it is assumed that the key points of these discussions are likely to be transferable across geographies and domains (e.g. tobacco and alcohol prevention), unspecified differences in prevention system structure (including policy and legislation) and professional cultures are acknowledged.

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This chapter is based upon materials published to support implementation of the EDPQS (Brotherhood, Sumnall, & Partnership, 2015). An early draft of this chapter was presented at the European Society for Prevention Research Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 2017. I am extremely grateful to Angelina Brotherhood for her expert insights which informed the content of this chapter, and to the EU Prevention Standards Partnership for their collaboration on the EDPQS project.

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Sumnall, H.R. (2019). The Substance-Use Prevention Workforce: An International Perspective. In: Sloboda, Z., Petras, H., Robertson, E., Hingson, R. (eds) Prevention of Substance Use. Advances in Prevention Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00627-3_25

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